|
News
Women's Workshop and Luncheon. KZN Law Society and
Pietermaritzburg Attorneys' Association
Read
more
Government
Gazette Update
May 2009
Read more
Recent
Judgments
Competition Commission,
Tribunal and Appeal Court - telecoms costs up for discussion ;
construction tenders under examination ; Xstrata / Anglo American
negotiations continue
Constitutional Court - recognition of
Muslim marriages ; minimum sentencing laws for 16- and -17 year olds
Supreme Court of Appeal
Commercial Crimes Courts
- sms banking scam
Electoral Courts
Equality Courts
Eastern Cape High Court : Port Elizabeth
KwaZulu-Natal High Court : Durban - freedom of testation
KwaZulu-Natal High Court : Pietermaritzburg - Education Department
opposes sign language at schools ; Pmb magistrate loses case
North Gauteng High Court - rights
of surrogate parents ; Financial Services Board takes action
Northern Cape High Court
South Gauteng High Court
Western Cape High Court
Magistrates Courts - false rape charges ; Motata case draws to a
close ; insurance won't pay in faked death case
Regional courts
- case
against Jabulani Mabaso and Pamela Zulu proceeds ; 'blue light'
shooting
South
Africa. Government Information
Speeches
Read
more
Legislation
Companies Act ; Constitution ; Constitution Seventeenth Amendment
Bill of 2009 ; Consumer Protection Act
Read
more
Legal
Profession
Legal Practice Bill under discussion once again ; effects of the
recession ;
women solicitors earn 29% less than their male
colleagues in the UK
Read
more
South Africa
Special Investigations Unit 'fired' by Correctional Services
Department which also suspends two senior officials ; special courts
for 2010 crime victims ; syndicates strip Western Cape of indigenous
flora and fauna ; human trafficking in advance of 2010 ; more bullying
at schools ; appointments to the Judicial Service Commission which has
started interviewing candidates for the SCA ; International Conference
on Affirmative Action ; labour action affecting the petroleum, chemical, pharmaceutical and paper
industries as well as the construction, mining industries and the
SABC ; Hout Bay is the scene of violent protests in advance of a
property auction ; Land Bank under threat ; Graham Boustred makes
headlines ; comments on the nationalisation of mines ; Durban's public
transport problems continue ; the
Hawks-formerly-known-as-the-Scorpions continue to make news ; MTN's competition
to mark 15 years of business goes awry
Read more
Africa
Using traditional institutions in modern Africa ; Namibian seal
hunt goes ahead and two journalists are clubbed ; former Rwandan
governor gets life in prison ; Charles Taylor testifies in his trial
for war crimes ; Sudanese women lashed for wearing trousers ; Zimbabwe
reviews foreign investment laws
Read
more
Asia
Khmer
Rouge trial ; China hands down death sentence for accepting bribes ;
Mumbai gunman pleads guilty
Read
more
Europe
EU asylum seekers to be treated equally by all member countries ;
49 members of Mafia syndicate jailed in Italy ; teenager involved in
pregnancy claim after swimming in pool
Read
more
Middle
East
Saddam Hussein's last interviews made available ; court action
against a 'genie' in Saudi Arabia
Read
more
United
Kingdom
Conviction for inciting racial hatred via a foreign
website ; legal aid cuts ; dumping of toxic waste in foreign countries
; possible changes to immigration law ; end of retirement age ; Sexual
Offences (Scotland) Bill covers sexually offensive emails or texts
Read
more
United
States and South America
US judge gives SA apartheid victims the
green light to sue
multinational corporations ; CIA programme to be investigated ;
Guantanamo Bay hearings resume
Read
more
International
King III ; how old is too old to become a mother?
Read
more
Miscellaneous
E-Things
What teenagers really think ; Twitter activity
Read
more
|